Feeling up for a challenge this Thanksgiving? Sick of the canned cranberry sauce and the pre-made, store-bought turkey? Try cooking an entire feast for your family… from scratch! Let’s face it, in the end, you may be a little bit worn out, but you get to eat the delicious results and bask in the light of your own accomplishment. This year, le
As holidays go, Thanksgiving sure has its share of odd traditions. Live parades with lip-synched musical numbers! Mincemeat pies and Jell-O molds! Grandma Ruthie removing her dentures at the dinner table! Not even the President of the United States is spared his share of the inanity. C
November 23, 2011 The "Frog Days of Fall" are filled with "The Boys of Fall", and so is Thanksgiving Day. Years ago, the Detroit Lions were the first (and only) team in the NFL to play their regular weekly game on a day other than Sunday - Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. It didn't take long for "America's Team" Dallas Cowboys to join in hosting a Thanksgiving Day game. Of course, whoever played the Lions or Cowboys had to play on Thanksgiving Day too, on the road!
November 23, 2011 There are all kinds of Thanksgiving traditions some of the most popular being football, family dinners and--to start off the day--the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. The first annual Macy's turkey day parade started back in 1924 and it is tied with Detroit for second place behind Philadelphia as the longest running Thanksgiving Day parade in the United States. There are some other interesting facts about it.
November 22, 2011 I was thinking about the holiday season, and all of the Christmas carols and songs we've come to know and love. Thanksgiving is one of the most noted holidays during the "Frog Days of Fall", but the only Thanksgiving song I can think of is "Over The River And Through The Woods to Grandmother's House We'll Go".
November 22, 2011 It's a question asked at every Thanksgiving dinner table. The plates are passed around, one with white meat the other with dark meat. Which one do you choose? Is it a matter of taste, a matter of calories or something else. The experts at Care2.com have come up with a chart that shows the benefits and drawbacks of each.
November 21, 2011 Whether you're making your first turkey for Thanksgiving or your hundredth, I've got a recipe I found last year for the moistest, juiciest bird you'll ever eat. But it'll take some planning ahead of time. It's called brining. You soak the bird in a salt marinade for 24 hours before you roast it. OMG YUM!
November 21, 2011 When we think of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner we generally think of turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and--for desert--pumpkin pie. But the gourmet guys and gals at The Food Network have come up with a host of alternatives, recipes that can make the usual fare stand out as well as some "outside of the box" suggestions. Have a napkin handy if case you begin to drool while reading the recipes.
White meat, dark meat… or Spam meat? Even the most devout Thanksgiving eaters might have a hard time swallowing these 10 turkey-flavored, truly unique and totally bizarre edibles below. Somebody please pass the (regular-flavored) Alka-Seltzer.
If you're like most Americans, your Thanksgiving dinner table will include at least a few basic items — turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and the like. But have you ever thought about why we eat those foods on Thanksgiving? Or, for that matter, why turkey is called “turkey”?
In order to answer these hard-hitting questions and maybe even give you some interesting small-talk for the table, here are the stories behind the traditional Thanksgiving foods.
Thanksgiving is a week away, but you can see several of the new floats that will grace the 85th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade right now courtesy of ‘Today.’
